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Faculty Accomplishments, continued from page 13
Joseph Cordes methods” on political science, and the third is on economic
Dr Joe Cordes, Trachtenberg Associate Director, is collaborating models of voting and the voter turnout puzzle Dr Goldfarb’s
with the Centro Para la Nueva Economia, a think tank in San Juan, paper “Can Rational Choice Theory Cope With Anorexia
Puerto Rico, and the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at Nervosa?” has become an NBER Discussion Paper It takes a
The Urban Institute in Washington, D C to evaluate the current previously published model of weight choice and dieting and
Puerto Rican tax deduction for charitable contributions, and to adapts it to try to conceptualize the “choice” to become anorexic
recommend ways of modifying the deduction to encourage It is co-authored with T Leonard, S Markowitz, and S Suranovic
increased charitable giving In June, Dr Cordes met with nonprof-
it stakeholders in Puerto Rico (including the First Lady of Puerto Philip Joyce
Rico), officials of the Puerto Rican Department of the Treasury, Dr Phil Joyce, PhD Program Director, again taught a course in
and leaders of the Puerto Rican nonprofit sector to identify key Cost-Benefit Analysis for the International Program for Develop-
issues and concerns Findings of the study will be completed this ment Evaluation Training, a joint effort of The World Bank and
fall Also in June, he moderated a panel on “What Does Benefit Carleton University, in Ottawa, Ontario in June 2009 Also in June,
Cost Analysis Tell Us? Positive and Normative Justifications” at a he co-chaired one of the five workshops in conjunction with the
conference on “New Ideas for Risk Regulation” organized by the Fifth Transatlantic Dialogue, hosted at GW In April, Dr Joyce
Association for Risk Analysis and Resources for the Future In briefed the Pew-Peterson Commission on budget reform con-
July, Dr Cordes and Dr Gerald Brock of TSPPPA gave the keynote cerning possible reforms of the budget process He has also
presentation at a conference on “Governance and Regula- recently been awarded a grant from the IBM Center for the Busi-
tion: U S to Lead or Lag in the 21st Century” hosted by the U S ness of Government to study transparency and accountability
Department of Energy Office of Health Safety and Security in four federal agencies His study, based on this grant, will be
and the National Academy of Public Administration Dr Cordes published in early 2010 Dr Joyce also recently became Director
has two upcoming paper presentations: one, “Rethinking the of the PhD Program within TSPPPA Most notably, Dr Joyce was
Charitable Tax Deduction? Analysis and Implications of Recent recently awarded the 2009 Elmer Staats Award from the National
Evidence” will be presented at the fall research conference of Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration
the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management; the (NASPAA) The award is given every other year to a faculty mem-
other, “Effects of Homeland Security Grants on State and Local ber in a NASPAA school whose “career exemplifies commitment
Spending for Public Safety Preparedness” will be presented (with to inspiring students to public service careers ”
TSPPPA PhD candidate and GWIPP Research Associate Charlotte
Kirschner) at the fall research conference of the Association for Jed Kee
Public Policy Analysis and Management Professor Jed Kee is working on a book on Public-Private Partner-
ships with J Forrer and an article “Public-Private Partnerships and
Robert Goldfarb the Public Accountability Question” that has been accepted for
Dr Robert Goldfarb recently published a paper on the interaction publication in Public Administration Review (co-authors: K New-
between theoretical modeling and empirical testing in economics comer, J Forrer, and E Boyer)
co-authored with J Ratner in the Journal of Economic Methodology
The paper takes two competing views of that interaction, and Donna Infeld
presents case studies of literatures consistent with each view It Dr Donna Infeld, MPP Program Director, published “Teaching
then asks why each of the literatures came to have its particu- Public Administration as a Fulbright Scholar in China: Analysis
lar relation between models and empirics Dr Goldfarb has been and Reflections” (with L Wenzhao) in the Journal of Public Affairs
working with Bryan Boulier (GW Department of Economics) on Education over the summer
a paper analyzing opt-in versus opt-out features of government
programs, which they plan to submit to a journal this fall Catherine Matto
The Trachtenberg School’s Program Coordinator, Catherine
He is also working with Lee Sigelman (GW Political Science Matto, recently left the School to join the Council for International
Department) on revising three papers The first is on the Exchange of Scholars (CIES) as a Program Officer in their Asia and
migration of concepts from economics to political science The Pacific Unit Located in Washington, D C , CIES is the scholar divi-
second addresses the influence of economics “modeling sion of the Institute of International Education and administers
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